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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfeAsOiaOkk She warned]. Should some poor sod mess with this granny, [[Memetic Mutation|she'll shoot him in his toodles]].
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7002829.stm Helen McAdam] confronted an armed robber who was holding a security guard at gunpoint. She then proceeded to beat him with her handbag and he fled.
* Azrael at [https://web.archive.org/web/20130801004644/http://www.outpostnine.com/gaijin_smash/ ''Gaijin Smash''] blogged frequently about the terror that is the obaasan (Japanese grandmother). School policies tended to be made with deference to them, and discipline couldn't be carried out for fear of facing their wrath; the obaasan were feared as much as yakuza parents. Az also describes a field trip in which he was driven from half-way up Mount Fuji by a typhoon, and on retreat was ''passed up'' by a group of marching obaasan who had already been to the top.
* The Sisters of Mercy might count as an entire sect of badass grandmas—even though their vows prevent them from even becoming mothers. Fed up with the cloistered lifestyle that Catholic nuns were forced into, they browbeat their way into making the ''Pope himself'' agree to the formation of a non-cloistered order. These women also went into ''warzones'' on a regular basis to treat the wounded—they braved ''artillery fire'' in the Crimean on more than one occasion!
* Australian Olympic gold medalist [http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Dawn-Fraser-71-year-old-Olympic-champ-fights-o?urn=oly,186159 Dawn Fraser, 71, grabs a would-be crook by the ear and kicks him in the groin]. He threatens her, she's annoyed, grabs him again by the ear and his hair.
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